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I am trying to enter swimming race times in excel. I am using the format:
m:ss.0, but when i put the data into a pivot table all of the tenths become
zeros.

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Hi Alex,
You're telling Excel to round off the time to tenths of a second.

Try m:ss.000
It's the most decimal places Excel will display for time.

John


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I am trying to enter swimming race times in excel. I am using the format:
m:ss.0, but when i put the data into a pivot table all of the tenths become
zeros.

HELP

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I want it to only display tenths, but the only number it shows is zero in the
tenths region. In other words if i put in: 0:52.3 on the pivot table it shows
0:52.0. The problem persisted after changing the format

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Hi Alex,
You're telling Excel to round off the time to tenths of a second.

Try m:ss.000
It's the most decimal places Excel will display for time.

John


"Alex" wrote in message ...
I am trying to enter swimming race times in excel. I am using the format:
m:ss.0, but when i put the data into a pivot table all of the tenths become
zeros.

HELP


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Add a column to your data.
Use a formula that returns the value in the time cell:
=a2
(say)

But format that cell as General.

Then use that in your pivottable. After you've built the pivottable, format
that field to show the time (including the tenths of seconds).



Alex wrote:

I am trying to enter swimming race times in excel. I am using the format:
m:ss.0, but when i put the data into a pivot table all of the tenths become
zeros.

HELP


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